Sonic Adventure is an often janky, not amazingly aged Sonic game that clearly shows wear and difficulty from the team's transition from 2d to 3d. It's filled with broken physics, inconsistent hitboxes, poor level design, frustrating mechanics and arbitrary and often completely unreasonable challenges. It's caused me no end of frustration and pain as i've completed it, and for a while, I thought i would hate it, and review it negatively accordingly. But, truth be told, I can't hate this. For all it's flaws, all it's shortcomings, it's clear this game was made with love, care and attention. It's clear that whoever made this genuinely wanted to make a good game, a game that people would look back on with smiles and happy memories. A game made to make people happy.

Beneath the crust and the jank, beneath the often jagged edges and serrated corners, there beats the heart of a game that tries it's best. The homing is whack, but it's almost consistent once you get it down. The physics are horrendously wonky, but that same jank can sometimes be what allows for the greatest of skips and triumphant moments. The levels have sections of terrible, awkward design that makes you want to tear your hair out, but that's as much the fault of the transition to 3d as it is anything else. People take for granted how hard it must've been for a developer to make that jump, and while I think in many ways they screwed the landing, it's not from lack of effort.

It's hard, being used to much higher quality and standards, to look back at a game where those standards didn't exist. This game still has lives for god's sake, lives! A mechanic solely invented to steal more money from arcade gamers, back in the earliest days of popular gaming. When i look at Sonic Adventure from the modern lens, it falls short in so many little ways - but it's charm, and it's moments of brilliance got me to stick it out regardless, and I'm walking away satisfied.

Would I tell people to 100% this? Absolutely ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ not, not in a million years. Should you play it? Well, that one's up to you. It's rough, ragged, unyielding and often unreasonable - it's aged poorly in many ways, and it shows the scars of being an older game very clearly. In spite of all that, though, the love and care is clear, the desire to make a good game shines through even the grimiest of facades and brings with it a charm that, to me, is worth the pain and frustration it caused me. Not the best game, but a surprisingly satisfying experience. Easily worth the money.

literally top 1 games of all time just because of the chao garden

Pretty good game, if you're considering buying this to play for the first time, do yourself a favor and install SADX mod installer, it'll auto configure the game to support widescreen and revert a lot of the not great changes between the original dreamcast version and this one. Some of the cheat codes in the mod manager are really fun to play around with too, my favorite being the one that disables all voices in the game. That plus a sound mod to replace sound effects with ones from the Genesis games and one to replace the rings make it feel like classic sonic. Sure, we're getting to real sonic of theseus hours with this setup, but I'm having fun with it.

I dont actually think this game is very good. It is worth experiencing though if you like sonic at all. Just make sure you heavily mod it to be as close to the dreamcast version as possible.

It says i only have 1 hour of playtime bc of a glitch with my mod loader but, The game is really fun and the levels are well designed, The chao garden is fun to just sit around in, and the graphics are really nostalgic, Not to mention all the fun stuff you can do with mods, Speaking of which you probably need to use them so the game actually looks nice and other stuff. Other than that it's amazing

It's alright but.. YOU CAN'T CHANGE BINDS OR PUT IN PREFORMANCE MODE!! my game is stuck at 30fps and the worst keybinds to man.

it's an alright port but i recommend playing it with mods.

I'm just gonna go ahead and assume that it's the PC port that sucks so damn bad and not the actual game

the adventure mode isn't even a adventure mode!
i keep waddling around the game not progressingat all!
the game doesn't tell you where to go and is glitchy.

but the gameplay sometimes is really good, tho.

please someone tell me how to progress i have no idea what to do!

Feels,plays,looks dated for a 3D Sonic Game,it was tolerable in 2000-2010 Gaming Era but for today's standart it is not.It has not aged well unlike some other 3D Sonic games,Only recommended for those who wants to relive nostalgia like i did otherwise play Sonic Adventure 2 instead of this one.(That one is bit better and more fun)

Note:Played without mods as idc about modding and never played Dreamcast version